First Quarter, 3d day, 1h. 35m., morning, W. 161 10 Tu. 4 23 7 35 15 162 11 W. 4 237 36 15 13 6 10 163 12 Th. 4 23 7 36 15 13 6 10 178 27 Fr. 4 26 7 40 15 14 0 12 6 9 10 11 11 thi. 3 51 morn. 116] 0 kn. 0 17 02 kn. 1 1 kn. 10 42 2 19 2 24 legs 11 20 3 20 31 legs 11 52 4 17 5 10 JUNE hath 30 days. 1873. All fringed with festal gold the barberry stands; Aspects, Holidays, Events, 1 E Whit-Sun., Pentecost. Nicomede. 5 Th. 6 Fr. 7 Sa. 8 E 9 Mo. statesman, died, MRS. H. B. STOWE. Farmer's Calendar. ̧` GOOD corn weather is good also for the weeds. How they grow! It is a little cheaper to keep them down than to let them alone. They take the heart out 4th. N. H. Legislature meets. Very of the land; and I think you'd 6. stationary. better put in some crop that will 6th. Count Cavour, great Italian fine. give you more winter feed for stock. There's green fodder corn. Trinity Sund. in Perih. It is hard to cure, to be sure, but O sup. Occasional just think what a load of it to brill. showers the acre! and then, if you sow it with now, you can cure it early, while the sun is hot. And there is the 12 Th. Corpus Christi. runs low. Hungarian grass. It can be sown 13 Fr. Very high tides. & C. now. It isn't worth while to sow 14 Sa. in Peri. Benedig Arnold died it earlier, for it needs warm weather and a warm soil. 1st Sunday after Trinity. waits till the warm nights come Triumphal entrance of German army before it starts ahead; but then 17 Tu. Battle Bunker Hill, 1775. thunder how it grows, as if the very spir18 W. Lo.ti. gr. hel.1. N. Longest its of hartshorn were after it. 10 Tu. 9 gr. E 15 into Berlin, 1871. England, 1801. ⚫ day. It 19 Th. D. { died, 1871. S18th. Grote, historian, But don't fail to cut it in the 20 Fr. 21st. 69 C. and "blow," for then it makes the best hay. And there are the swedes. They always pay if 21 Sa. Oent.. SUMMER BEGINS. 22 E 20 Sunday after Trinity. sown this month and well taken 23 Mo. High tides. lightning, care of. They save a heap of 24 Tu. Nativ. of St. John Baptist. Midsummer hay, they are so handy to feed { Day. 25 W. Hist. Selbourne, d., 1793. I runs high. and out early in the winter. No farmer can afford to get on withC. Rev. G. White, auth. Nat. out the swedes. Cut grass early C. perhaps hail. for hay. The cows like it, and in Aphelion. 29th. Henry Clay thrive all the better for it. died, 1852. 30S.af. Tr. St. Peter. 6 will do the work of ten men in hope you've a good mower. in Apo. the same time, and do it well. Don't forget the weeds. in Apo. It ཆགས པའིདང་ དང > First Quarter, 2d day, 6h. 26m., evening, W. 194 13 S. 4 357 35 15 626 195 14 M. 4 367 35 14 59 0 17 210 29 Tu. 4 507 22 14 320 44 6 20 621 31 622 4 5 h'd 11 345 34 623 5 6 624 61 627 993 arm 1 44 9 46 628 10 2d. Victor Emmanuel makes his tri- 2 W. Very low tides. [8h. 49m. O. W. HOLMES. Farmer's Calendar. HERE we are in the midst of haying, and the weeds not all killed yet. Can't stop for hoeing 3 Th. 6. Length of night now. Fix up the knives of the 4 Fr. INDEPENDENCE DAY. 5 Sa. 4th. 68 C. mowing machine, oil the bearIntensely ings, jump on, and go ahead. 6 E 4th Sunday after Trinity. Twasn't so when I was a boy, 7 Mo. 8 Tu. Edmund Burke died, 1797. 9 W. C runs low. 10 Th.& C. hot but times change, you know. No use to hang back or kick in the weather traces. The world moves, and unless it's a pity farming shouldn't keep tempered up. So put the shoulder to the [in 8-the collar, and lay to it. Don't let high tides. it gets too far gone it is little the grass get out of blossom. If 13 E 5th Sun. after Trin. by better than straw. Begin early, 14 Mo. 9 gr. elong. W. to end of AuMiddle of July and push ahead as fast as you 15 Tu. St. Swithin. Sgust best time to bud can. We don't dry hay quite as much as they used to. One good gr. elong. E. 64C. With a 11 Fr. 12 Sa. 16 W. 17 Th. 18 Fr. in Per. Very {fruit trees. ting Marat, Paris, 1793. Charlotte Corday executed for assassina-day is about enough. good mower, a good tedder, and 20th. 69 C. cooling a good horse-rake, it is fine work 19 Sa. 20th. 9 gr. hel. lat. S. now, and the hay can go in the It makes a great 20 E 6th Su. aft. Tr. St. Margaret. day it is cut. 21 Mo. O.22d. 8 h. 22 Tu. St. Mary Magdalen. 23 W. Roger Sherman died, 1793. 24 Th. 6H C. 25 Fr. St. James. DOG-DAYS deal in handling in a hot July Aph. sun. Hay ought to be trodden Low tides. solid and even on the mow. It 22d.ru. hi. keeps better for it. Don't keep winds the great barn doors open to let DOG DAYS [62 Cing farmer does that. The sifting the wind draw through. No think26 Sa. St. Anne. High tides. 6 Cwind carries off the fragrance of 27 E 7th Su. af. Trín. Cin Apo. the hay. Keep the barn as close 28 Mo. Robespierre guillotined, from the as you can all through haying, 29 Tu. 60. stationary. and shut it up tight as soon as it is over. It is a good plan to topnorth. dress the mowing lots as soon as 30 W. Low tides. 31 Th. BEGIN. ་ Signs of rain. the hay is taken off. 1873. 's Declination. Days. d. 123456 AUGUST, Eighth Month. m. m. Days. d. m. Days. d. m. Days. Id. m. Days.d. 17N.54 7 16 18 13 14 32 19 12 37 25 10 35 13 20 12 17 26 10 14 17 39 8 14 14 11 57 27 53 11 37 28 9 32 11 10 56 30 49 1 > First Quarter, 1st day, 9h. 45m., morning, E. Last Quarter, 14th day, 11h. 57m., evening, E. th. m.h. m. h. m. h. m. m. 1 Fr. 4 537 19 14 260 50 214 2 Sa. 4 54 7 18 14 240 52 215 3 S.4 557 16 14 21 0 55 216 4 M. 4 56 7 15 14 19 0 57 217 5 Tu.4 57 7 14 14 170 59 218 6 W. 4 58 7 13 14 151 613 9 10 kn. 2 6 8 5 6 9 53 61 sec. 11 38 6 51 610 63 6 11 6 12 210 46 219 7 Th. 4 59 7 12 14 13 1 3 5 14 101 220 8 Fr. 5 0 7 10 14 101 6 50 11 11 legs 221 9 Sa. 5 711 49 rises morn. 8 19 0 49 235 23 Sa. 5 16 6 48 13 321 44 2 1 0 bel. 730 0 36 |